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Phil Lesh can still party like a rock star. The Grateful Dead bassist celebrated his 71st birthday until the wee hours at 230 Fifth after playing with Furthur, the band’s current incarnation. His cake came out at 3 a.m. yesterday, and friends and fellow Furthur members cheered as he blew out candles. Guitarist Bob Weir, the only other founding member of the Grateful Dead who plays with Furthur, said they played a song from The Beatles’ “Abbey Road” each night of their current tour. Weir said, “Tonight we finished it off with the eight-song medley that ends the album.” Lesh added, “I think it’s pretty great. It was my wife’s idea.” Also at the bash: the Allman Brothers’ Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks, pedal-steel guitar great Robert Randolph and keyboardist Steve Molitz.